and andrew mccabe is kind of in the middle of that.could end up being people like that that are indicted. that's also still out there. >> you know, in your earlier interview with james trusty, he suggested maybe all three branches of government would get involved. [laughter] we're talking about the courts here, and i can see that coming. judiciary house chairman jerry nadler is already using the word cover-up. he's going to demand a full document dump from mueller's office, and i think possibly attorney general barr will resist some of that. i can see the white house and donald trump telling the justice department to resist that subpoena at which point we are headed into the courts. paul: kim, will there ever be an accounting for the steele dossier and how much it came about and how much it was relied upon by the fbi and the courts? >> we can have some hope that those inspector general reports, the one that is being done, in fact, on this fisa process, will bring some light on that. but my own view is that the only way you get a full a

so again, again... it's well known that president trump wasn't a fan of andrew mccabe, but still, thatspired to have mccabe fired. it is suspicious, though, that back in december, trump tweeted, "mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go." and then right at the deadline... - former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe fired tonight by attorney general jeff sessions just two days before mccabe was going to retire, his pension now gone. - that was just 26 hours before mccabe was due to retired on his 50th birthday. - so in the end, trump appears to have been extra vindictive about this, right? he said he didn't want mccabe to get his pension, and it looks like he made sure that that happened. and we don't know for sure what happened. but that's how it looks, like if you've been saying for a year, "i wish my dickhead husband gets killed by a 1982 dodge caravan," and then three months later, your husband gets killed by a 1982 dodge caravan, don't be shocked when they cops show up like, "ma'am, we suspect "that you killed your dickhead husband with a 1982 dodge car

the appointment was made based on the fake dossier paid for by crooked hillary and now disgraced andrew mccabe, he had all stated no crime, than the special counsel should never have been appointed and there should be no mueller report. if this was an illegal and conflicted investigation and search of a crime. and then he ends with this. a russian collusion was nothing more than an excuse by the democrats for losing an election that they thought they were going to win. this should never happen to a

very unflattering to andrew mccabe, and so that's referred over to the criminal division.ake it a step at a time, see what the facts are. but, yes, i think the american people -- at least a huge swath of the american people, just want -- if charges should be brought or at least seriously considered, have that serious consideration process. because i don't think there's been an assurance there has been that kind of careful, fair-minded review and just let the facts come out. maria: sounds like you think there will be accountability here. >> i think eventually. maria: eventually. all right. ken, it's good to see you this morniing thanks so much. i will see you tomorrow morning on mornings with maria from 6-9 a.m. ian on the fox business network. and congratulations to "sunday morning futures," celebrating five years today on the air. have a good sunday, everybody. every day you're nearly fried() to a crisp, professionally! (vo) you earned it, we're here to make sure you get it. quickbooks. backing you. whooo! want to take your next vacation to new heights? tripadvisor now le

director andrew mccabe. he's the author of a new book "the threat: how the f.b.i.tects america in the age of terror and trump." good to have you here. >> thanks so much for having me >> brennan: i'll start you off with the news of the week. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort was sentenced this week. he will also face sentencing in a d.c. court in the days to come. he was given 47 months, far less than what is the sentencing guideline of up to 20-plus years. is the length of time he will serve matching the crimes he's being accused of? >> well, i was really surprised by the sentence he was given. i think it's an incredibly lenient sentence and light, not just of the offenses he was convicted for, but the additional offenses he has plead guilty to in d.c. and the offenses he's acknowledged in the sentencing process in virginia that he's responsible for some like most people, i was shocked by how lenient the sentence was. >> brennan: it sounds like you're predicting the d.c. court may add to those 47 months. >> there is no question he's going to get addition

on "afterwards" andrew mccabe discussing his book "the threat."y new yorkiewed times reporter adam goldman. >> i spent a lot of time thinking about the decisions we made and the reasons behind those decisions, and how we thought about those decisions at the time. i tried to be honest in my reassessment, did we get it right or not? jim'sggest issues, announcement in july about our conclusion of the case in a public way that departed from president. and jim's decision to notify congress in october about the reopening of the case because of the emails on anthony weiner's laptop. in retrospect, i

andrew mccabe discussing his threat."e he is interviewed by new york times reporter adam goldman. >> i spend a lot of time thinking about the decisions and the reason and how we thought about those issues at the time and with the benefit of hindsight, i tried to be honest in my own reassessment of did we get it right or did we not? the biggest issues there are jim's announcement, jim comey's announcement in july about our conclusion of the case, in a public way that departed from jim's decision in october to notify congress about the reopening of the case because the emails on the anthony weiner laptop. i agreed with jim's decision to announce the cases we did in july. in retrospect, i think that we probably got that wrong. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. and the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is seapac. at we will ring that to you live. some of the conference from earlier today before that. >> good morning, cpac. thank you so much for inviting me to spain. movie,alism were a socialism would be

andrew mccabe is here in studio 57., john. >> before we get to the president, i want to ask you about the mueller report. >> sure. >> so it might come out or it might be delivered as early as next week to the justice department. you write in your book about handling the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the internal deliberations over how to report your findings to the public. >> that's right. >> reflecting on that experience, how do you think the mueller report should be handled when it's handed over? >> well, it's -- i think it's very easy to compare the two in the kind of headline approach but obviously the circumstances are fundamentally different. i know that many people had issues with the way we handled the july announcement of our investigative results in the hillary clinton case, so that's something i'm sure that the folks out the justice department will be thinking about as they decide what to do with this report. i can say that from my own perspective i think it's imperative that the report is shared i

so he goes to the office to meet with andrew mccabe. who's there to meet with him is lisa page. so actually he met with lisa page in august 2016. it was information that was actually given to him by christopher steele. and they're in the office. now, lisa page obviously right now -- we're looking at the testimony, i would say we're seeing a lot of finger pointing. she's pointing at the justice department, you know, they were in charge, they didn't want us to move forward. honestly, i think she's being honest there. but the fbi was also heavily involved and as we have noted in past stories from the top down and the people involved in this in covering up as well for hillary clinton. we see that with james baker's testimony. >> sean: right. exactly. >> yeah. >> sean: greg, one of the things that i picked up here in the orr transcripts last week, now these -- this -- by the way, how many times did you read it? i want to know. >> you were right. twice. >> sean: he can't help himself. i watch him in his office. he's like this. >> it's great stuff! >> sean: it's true. you're a maniac.

for background, it is important to remember, lisa page was the fbi deputy director to andrew mccabe's general counsel. that was until he was fired for lying. she was forced to resign because of her plated and he jumped biased, which of course was uncovered in a series of text messages with her then fbi boyfriend, peter strzok. according to paige's testimony, just released earlier today, well, obama's department of justice was unusually intrusive into fbi's criminal investigation into hillary clinton. in other words, they managed it from the top. they orchestrated it. they orchestrated her breakdown phony investigation as we have been telling you about. they make sure hillary clinton never, ever had a chance to be charged as she should have beend as even comey's top lawyer in the fbi, james baker, wanted to charge her with a violation of the espionage act, for felony. they tried to tamper with their interviews. look at this quote from the testimony. "a soon as the planning started to interview some of the more high-profile witness, not just mrs. clinton, but also huma abedin, cheryl mi

let's start with the new andrew mccabe texts.hy they are significant given the fact that he is gone. >> it sure looks political. we talked about that previously. the bombshell part of this piece of news is not only that it looks political -- it was political. more importantly, the department of justice was involved. not just the fbi. and people at the department of justice in sally yates' office, the then-attorney general, were concerned about this source and had expressed, as you can see from the text messages, concerns about christopher steele and his bias. all of that sounds an awful lot like too much information, a lot of bureaucratic in-fighting. it's that, too. the important part is a lot of with that bias really meant didn't find its way into the warrant application. that is the unforgivable part. that should have been -- it's nice the department of justice focused on this and had concerns about it, and it's okay for the department you have proceeded and gone and made an application for a warrant. what is not okay about it

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former fbi director andrew mccabe discussing his book, the threat, how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump, interviewed by adam goldman. >> i did spend a lot of time thinking about the decisions we made. and the reasons behind those decisions and how we thought about those issues at the time and with the benefit of hindsight i tried to be honest in my reassessment of did we get it right or not. the biggest issues are jim's announcement in july about our conclusion of the case and a very public way that departed from precedent and then jim's decision in october to notify congress about the case because of the females on the weiner laptop. think wepect i probably got that wrong. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span 2. cohen,ednesday, michael president trump's former lawyer, testified about investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign and the president's financial disclosures. here is mr. cohen's opening statements followed by highlights from the hearing. : thank you for inviting me here today. i asked this committee to

author andd, political commentator heather donald and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. heather mcdonald will take your calls, facebook questions, and tweets on several of your -- several of her books including the burden of bad ideas, the war on cops, and most recently, the diversity delusion. sunday, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe discussing his book "the threat: how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump." he is interviewed by "new york times" reporter adam goldman. >> i did think about the decisions we made and the reasons behind those decisions and how we thought about them at the time. with the benefit of hindsight, i try to be honest in the sense of did we get it right or did we not. the biggest issues are of course, jim comey's announcements in july about our conclusion of the case in a very public way that departed from president, and of course, jim's decision in october to notify congress about the reopening of the case because of the emails on the wiener laptop. i agreed with jim's decision to announce the case as we did in july. in

we know this because andrew mccabe testified under oath in 2017 that these fisa applications were basedake steel dossier and the important thing to understand is it is a crime to falsify fisa statements and applications. it wasn't in once or twice the four times, i keep hearing people saying we need to move on, writing opinion pieces, time to move on, that would be a dangerous thing to do because our entire security regime is based on trust, an honor system. we have to have people who are above reproach running a surveillance state and law enforcement so the book has to be thrown at john brennan and james clapper and james comey and andrew mccabe. they have to have a reckoning for what they did. it wasn't a big misunderstanding. this was intentional, it was systematic, it was malicious. for us to not have a reckoning in many ways is to so the seeds of our demise as a republic. heather: he blocked the mueller report, he wants this resolution passed to release communications from the top obama officials many of whom you just mentioned. this isn't the first time you mentioned the problem w

all of the important abuses that you laid out, you have had james comey that pete referenced and andrew mccabeng out the idea in the case of mccabe on his book tour recently that maybe the president is a russian asset then a couple days ago he comes out with op-ed even though i believe president trump is president of the united states i automatic not routing for mr. mueller to root he is a criminal. i'm not routing for mr. mueller to claim is he a president. i'm not routing for anything. i have no idea, he wrote, whether the special counsel will tkd tha conclude mr. trump conspired with the elections or that he obstructed justice. he doesn't care. he doesn't care? he is the guy comey who got the special counsel appointed. he and others have been pillaring this president for two years now. are they trying to rewrite history? >> they are trying to rewrite history. the dropping of that op-ed is highly suspicious. it comes within 48 hours or so of the dropping of this report? i'm sure that was just a coincidence. come on. mr. comey went above and beyond and democrats were the loudest opponents of

listen to andrew mccabe on the recent book tour.t almost sounds like he is a devoted reader of david from from "the atlantic." from worked from president bush and leading advocate of iraq war and russia-gate. a lot of crossover there. >> tucker: there is. >> but andrew mccabe seemed like he was just scrolling through twitter like reading the "new york times" or something. he didn't have privileged information that we know of that led him to launch unprecedented investigation in the democratically elected president. >> tucker: you want to finish out the segment with this question to you. you got right to it. i think it was yesterday, the former f.b.i. director james comey wrote an op-ed in which he preducted what we found -- predicted what we found out tonight. no indictment or collusion. the obvious suggestion is that james comey had some inside information in the mueller investigation. shouldn't it shake all of our faith in the institution? >> it's already shaken the faith of many people. i don't think it will make a difference. le

former fbi director andrew mccabe discussing his book the threat, how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. by "new yorkewed times" reporter adam goldman. >> i spent a lot of time thinking about the decisions we made in the reasons behind them. how we thought about those issues at the time and with the benefit of hindsight, i tried to be honest in my own reassessment of did we get it right or did we not? the biggest issues are the jimuncement in july by comey about the conclusion of the case in a public way that departed from precedent. incourse, jim's decision october to notify congress about the reopening of the case because of the emails on the laptop. thery much agreed with decision to announce the case as we did in july. in retrospect, i think we probably got that wrong. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television company. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in

go to andrew mccabe, peter struck, the instructor general said james comey testified that he releasedhe memo to spur a special counsel investigation not to mention the fact that he tried to get the dossier legitimacy by meeting with trump in that meeting called for the release. >> with a given event to cnn two of course, that's how they solidified it. >> the point about lisa page. >> i'm so sorry. >> lieutenant general michael flynn. i want to bring up this point because a lot of people forget january 26, 2017, sally yates ran to the white house to inform the president and everybody at the white house that general flynn had been compromised by the russians. but think about this. here's amendment served his entire life in the u.s. military. he was honored, he's an honorable man, a family man and all of a sudden his name is sullied. not only is it leaked, highly classified unmasking leaked today big nation of the washington post about his conversation with the russian ambassador. the former russia investor. all the sudden he is in the center of a controversy. now we find out nobody, inc

that is a lot better than andrew mccabe at fbi, deciding i'll start an investigation. kennedy: operating in utter opassty. kennedy: with no accountability. kennedy: too much power. >> we knew it was coming when democrats won in november. kennedy: someone like andrew mccabe in his forcer position could pretty much investigate anyone he wanted at any time. >> i think you made the point before about creme cat -- democs and republicans and presidential power. i think biggest mistake with democrats and lois lerner thing. congress allowed the executive branch to stymie it. they took the cop-out, we will hold low lois lerner in contemp. they didn't want to pull that trigger. kennedy: they could have helder in in contempt of congress for making a statement then faking of fifth. >> the follow-up, you you can jail them until they talk, congress ha had no teeth. what is the executive branch learned over the couple of years. kennedy: more power equals more fun. >> also you don't have to cooperate, there is stymie, obstruct, slowdown. i think that congress has to assert its powers.

that would be andrew mccabe, sally yates, and others. remember, mccabe said no dossier, no fisa approval. don't forget it was jim comey,e former fbi director, leaking privileged conversations with the president of the united states. under 18 usc section 641, it is illegal to, without authority, i convey such a record. which, in this case, was an fbi record of a conversation with president trump, and get this, comey is still trying to paint himself as a victim and as a a superhero, and as a super patriot, despite all of this, and is actually accusing the president of obstruction. which contradicts what he actually said under oath.. take a look. >> a few days after that, i sit down with president trump. he says, when i decided to just do it, talking about firing you, i said to myself, i said, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. what did you think when you heard that? >> i thought that is potentially obstruction of justice. i hope somebody is going to look at that. again, the president appears to be saying -- i don't

we are told, andrew mccabe said, no dossier, no fisa warrant. that was a backdoor to your campaign before the election. the dossier also was leaked to "the washington post," parts of it, to the american people, and of course, never verified. do you have plans to release those fisa applications, gang of eight information, the 30 trues of bruce ohr and others, the five buckets are john solomon and sara carter, as they call it? >> president trump: i do, i have plans to declassify and release. i have plans to absolutely release. but i have some very talented people working for me, lawyers. and they really didn't want me to do it early on. devin nunes, by the way, and meadows, you look at jim jordan, and all of the people, they worked so hard. a lot of people wanted me to do it a long time ago. i'm glad i didn't do it. we got a great result without having to do it but we well. one of the reasons that my lawyers didn't want me to do it, they said, if i do it, they will call it a form of obstruction, so they will say, oh, you released these documents s

those recent texts from andrew mccabe, those are devastating.t in itself should be enough to take a serious look at this and open an investigation and i hope you see that. shannon: dick blumenthal, a democrat, his prediction which he has been making, we don't have that but i will tell you what he said. there are more indictments in this president's future. if it is not connected to this he is referring to the southern district of new york. how much should his legal team be worried about those avenues tonight? >> i think we should take away from the mueller report being finished, no more indictments from mueller because regulations require him to issue his report when he is done. he is finished. there will not be any more indictments involving russia collusion and the trump campaign. mueller looked at all those facts and decided there's nothing chargeable there. i'm not going to second-guess mister mueller's prosecutorial decisions and i don't think congress should either. the battleground will move to congress with impeachment and oversight. the

go to andrew mccabe, peter struck, the instructor general said james comey testified that he releasedecial counsel investigation not to mention the fact that he tried to get the dossier legitimacy by meeting with trump in that meeting called for the release. >> with a given event to cnn two of course, that's how they solidified it. >> the point about lisa page. >> i'm so sorry. >> lieutenant general michael flynn. i want to bring up this point because a lot of people forget january 26, 2017, sally yates ran to the white house to inform the president and everybody at the white house that general flynn had been compromised by the russians. but think about this. here's amendment served his entire life in the u.s. military. he was honored, he's an honorable man, a family man and all of a sudden his name is sullied. not only is it leaked, highly classified unmasking leaked today big nation of the washington post about his conversation with the russian ambassador. the former russia investor. all the sudden he is in the center of a controversy. now we find out nobody, including lieutenant ge

he later pointed to former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. >> i mean, mccabe, his wife got hundreds of thousands of dollars. he was running the fbi and running all sorts of the cases and his wife got hundreds of thousands of dollars from essentially clintons, from clinton's closest friendened and then he ruled so favorably. >> the president and hannity sought to spin the beginning of the russian investigation as the stuff of deep state conspiracy. as philip bump pointed out in the washington post, mccabe's wife ran for the virginia senate in 2017 and lost and received money from a pack of former mcauliffe and a number of other candidates. >> that election was over well before mccabe had any oversight into the investigation into hillary clinton also e-mails, much less the investigation into trump and russia. and then there was hannity. >> this is what we know that in august of 2016, we know bruce orr warned everybody at the doj and fbi that christopher steele hated you, that hillary clinton paid for the fossier, it was fought verified, still in october and three renewal application w

. >> martha: we heard andrew mccabe say before congress that the dossier was essential but it wasn't know that one of the other sources that they used was a piece written by michael isikoff and published by yahoo! news but the majority and for the information came from the dossier. that's what it all boils down to basically only having the dossier. is there any information that you have that there was anything else in that fisa application that would be substantive in terms of opening investigations to these private citizens? >> only the conversations with george papadopoulos that occurred in a london bar, but even andrew mccabe indicated that in the absence of the dossier, the papadopoulos meeting would not have been enough to continue the investigation, so this investigation was fueled fundamentally by a library where the republicans are democrat's art in charge in the future, it should never be used as the basis of counter intelligence and criminal investigations. we think the only way to get to a solution is to turn all the cards face up on the table and truly understand how the

former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, the controversial top official at the center of the russiaestigation that is -- had this to say. >> no question who get additional time from dc.i don't think it's probably the job of the d.c. courts to rectify mistake or something that was done in another jurisdiction. i'm sure judge jackson will approach her sentence with just keeping her eye on the facts of the case. eric: will he get the max? let's bring our legal attorney. let's start, do you think jackson will throw the book at him like judge ellis, give him a rub on the knuckles? >> don't think i would agree with anything that came out of the mouth of andrew mccabe but i'll say is not the judge's job to try and fix what she may perceive to be a light sentence that came out of virginia. that said, she's going to have to measure quite a few things to determine how much if any additional time, will be appropriate for paul manafort. i think one of the key aspects here will have to dig into the reason why his plea deal in this case went south. because remember, he has not been tried for that

we'll look at the potential fallout for the white house. >>> former acting fbi director andrew mccabehere in studio 57. we'll ask what he thought of the michael cohen public testimony and if he believes there's evidence the president committed any crimes. >>> plus, more of gayle king's interview with two men who allege michael jackson repeatedly molested them as children. only on "cbs this morning," the response they expect when a new documentary tells their story this weekend. >>> and we'll be at the kennedy

with james comey out andrew mccabe took over as acting fbi director. may 16, robert mueller who is the fbi director after 9/11, interviewed with president trump and ron rosenstein to replace james comey. the following day ron rosenstein appointed robert mueller as special counsel. writing the responsibility as quote - to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. new documents testimony and text messages show the 10 days following the firing are a period with fbi and officials pushing back against the white house. >> red rosenstein, andrew mccabe and others discussed secretly recording the president and removing him from office of the disagree whether it was serious. from the presence former personal attorney, michael,, to former campaign chairman paul manafort, special counsel is either indicted, or had guilty pleas. six trump associates and two dozen russian nationals. they reportedly called this a witchhunt. >> there is no collision. >> during his confirmation hearings for attorney g

. >> [ inaudible ] people consider a hearing, since this is andrew mccabe, who else would you be looking to -- >> well, [ inaudible ] was still hired, i would like for him to come if he would. establish a record of how much did the democratic party pay fusion gps, how much money did they give to mr. steele, how could bruce orr's wife work for fusion gps when he was like the number four at doj. the question, is the dossier verified to this day. it's my belief that information in the dossier is unverified to this very day. mr. cohen did not go to prague. the sew lay shus material in the dossier is a bunch of garbage i think generated by russians trying to undercut our democracy. so i will be doing oversight to try to put this puzzle together and i don't know what mr. barr will do. but i think because of the emotional nature of all this, that somebody like mr. mueller needs to look at the fisa warrant and the other stuff. thank you very much. >> wrapping up with chair lindsey graham on the mueller report. we joined it in progress. if you missed any of what he had to say see it on our websit

mark: well, we have the former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, or he's made a lot of newsnutes" interview, andnd he's on a celebrity tour hawking his book on nighttime shows which is a remarkable thing for me because ona "60 minutes," from my perspective, he confessed to a cabal over there at the justice department that was trying to trigger the 25th amendment to the constitution of the united states. clearly, they never read it, because it's a complicated amendment. and there's no role whatsoever for the fbi. and he says in part that the reason that he was concerned about this is because the president fired comey. the president fired comey and among thoseid recommending husbd firing was the deputy -- his firing was the deputy attorney general of the unitedng states, mr. rosenstein. he says, well, the president asked me, you're the deputy attorney general of the united states, you can do it or not do it. and then they talk about the deputy attorney general of the united states talking about he disagrees with this, wiring himself to talk to the president of the united state

acting director and courageous upper lip donor, andrew mccabe. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) "freeze. f.b.i. ( laughter ) i'll take that back, thank you." he's going to be interviewed this sunday by our friend scott pelley on the "60 minutes," but they released an advance clip, and mccabe says that, right after james comey was fired and, his number one mission was protecting the russia investigation from the president. >> i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion, that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. >> stephen: good, and that's important, because trump is good at making things vanish. his casinos. his airline. he has not seen his feet in years. ( laughter ) ( applause ) according-- according-- clean up that top a little bit, that'd be great. that's on him. now, according to mccabe, after comey was fired and people in the media complained, trump called him to try to change the narrative. and he did it on a phone that was n

obtained 40 pages of text messages, i have them here, between the former acting fbi director, andrew mccabeand fbi lawyer lisa page. these text messages show that in october of 2016, just nine days before the fisa application was granted for carterer page, there was a lot of concern and heartburn by a senior justice department official about the bias of a confidential human source that was associated with theha application, based on our reporting, we believe it's the former british spy christopher steele. these text messages, i'm also told tonight, since our story went online, were never provided to some of the house committees that were seeking the text messages of andrew mccabe last year. they felt this obstructed their investigation. finally, and the text messages, you seees senior people at the i sharing a very derogatory blogs then candidate trump, and even using the d word to describe congressman trey gowdy. so you can get a sense, if you go online and read our story, whether there is more evidence of political bias that may have infected these investigations, sean. >> sean: remember,

it seems one tactic that make people like yourself and jim comey and andrew mccabe talk about the trump family and trump organization being more akin to a mob family. >> yes, so this is interesting because it squarely is in the realm of obstruction of justice and witness tampering. and the thing about -- the need thing about working corruption is if get a human source or two, you've got your case made. there's been recent reporting in the media that there are cooperators on the topic of dangling of pardons. i would caution people to not get caught up in this he said/he said about who approached who first. because it almost doesn't matter at the end of the day in terms of initial approach. so if cohen's attorney went first and said hey, what about a pardon? okay, i'm less interested in that initial approach than i am in the response to it and what happened after. and who's a player in recent reporting being placed kind of squarely in the middle of all of this? rudy giuliani. and it's headed towards a situation where i think giuliani will become a fact witness on obstruction and pardons,

andrew mccabe who was acting fbi director when the counterintelligence investigation was expanded to include donald trump. eric swalwell, a member of the house intel committee. they've been making these mob analogies for a long time. and we always heard them, we went, wow, you know, is that too much? it sounds like law enforcement has known exactly what they're dealing with, exactly how to investigate them, and, perhaps, if donny's on to something, the prosecutors know exactly how they would prosecute such an enterprise. >> yeah, we're finally starting to see public discussion of what undoubtedly has been discussed in the hallways of southern district of new york, fbi new york, and probably in washington as well, which is this concept that while we're all thinking, boy, this sounds like a mob family, the lawyers and agents are saying, there's a tool for this. there's a way we address mob families and organizations. and it's called reco. the basic notion is that the sum is greater than the part. so you can go ahead and attack an organization by hitting individuals with process ksecutn

we learned when andrew mccabe's book came out, actually a little bit before that from reporting in "the new york times," that that firing wasn't what we thought it was. through so much of our coverage of the mueller investigation, it wasn't just perhaps an effort to obstruct the investigation. it wasn't just about the president's peak, about the russia probe, thinking it was a hoax as he said to our colleague lester holt. it was viewed in that moment andrew mccabe decided to open a full field counter intelligence investigation into the president. so what robert mueller absorbed in that mayhem that ensued in the nine days between the firing of jim comey and the appointment of robert mueller by rod rosenstein as special counsel wasn't just a question about whether the president was obstructing justice. it wasn't just that looming question about russian meddling. it wasn't just whether the trump campaign was in cahoots, whether they were colluding. as a matter of sort of correcting the record that's already coming out, he did prove that there was contact and coordination at the highest lev

listen to andrew mccabe on his recent book to her.almost sounds like he's a devoted reader of david from at the atlantic, he worked for george w. bush, he helped coin the axis of evil phrase, he was a leading advocate for the iraq war, a leading advocate of russia gate. a lot of crossover. andrew mccabe feels like he was just scrolling through twitter, like, reading "the new york times," didn't have any privileged information, that we know of, that led him to launch these unprecedented investigations into the democracy of the president. >> tucker: i want to finish out the segment with this question. you got right to it. i think it was yesterday, former fbi director jim comey wrote an op-ed in which he basically predicted what we found out tonight. no indictments, no collusion. so the obvious suggestion is, jim comey had some kind of inside source of most beloved investigation. shouldn't that shake the faith that all of us have in our institutions? >> well, knowing that james comey that the institution for so long has it shaken the fav

sunday, former fbi director andrew mccabe discussing his book "the threat: helping the fbi protect america in the age of trump." did spend a lot of time thinking about the decisions we have made and the reason behind those decisions and how we thought about those issues at the time and with the benefit of hindsight, i tried to be honest in my own assessment of did we get it right or did we not? are -- isggest issue used jim comey's announcement in july about our conclusion of the case in a very public way that departed from president, and his decision in october to notify congress about the reopening of .he case i very much agreed with jim's .ecision in retrospect, i think we probably got that wrong. >> next on american history tv, isaac shapiro reads passages from his memoir growing up a stateless foreigner in wartime japan. mr. shapiro talks about his family's flight from persecution against jews and communist russia and germany before they settled in japan where mr. shapiro came of age during world war ii. in the postwar era at age 14, he became an

. >>> plus, former acting fbi director andrew mccabe reacts to michael cohen's testimony on catol hillcounting down to a critical launch. how it could put the u.s. a step >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ♪ >>> live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >>> you are looking live from our camera looking east at bay bridge. it is dry out there this morning, but there is more rain on the way. it is friday, march 1. thank you for joining us. i am kenny choi. >> i am michelle griego. it is friday, our favorite day of the week. it looks like it will be pretty nice. >> it will be a nice day across the bay area. enjoy it. we are getting another break from the rain today before the next weather system brings the return of the rain. let's take you outside. we are under mostly cloudy skies with temperatures in the 40s. 46 in conquer, 47 in oakland and san francisco, 45 livermore, 46 in san jose and 42 in santa rosa. we are quiet and we will stay quiet for most of the day. i want to give you a quick update o

which was within our own government a coup against a sitting president of the united states that andrew mccabedmitted to and yet we have on the record corruption of previous administration never investigated, from one primary example, sitting attorney general, loretta lynch that met with former president bill clinton in a private plane in arizona two days before hillary clinton was acquitted of all charges by then fbi director jim comey. what was that on a private plane? what was exchanged? was a quid pro quo? why was in their special investigation into a sitting attorney general talking to a former president of the united states when his wife was running for the presidency? that was never discussed. instead this revenge campaign. it should be and immediately. there is no collusion, not going to find anything and they are going to pay a political price in 2020. >> when the investigation is over i believe the administration will have the freedom to declassify documents that expose what the other side did to exonerate hillary and unfairly go after your father. at least i hope that happens. >> as

on "afterwards" andrew mccabe discussing his book "the threat." by new yorkiewed times reporter adam goldman. >> i spent a lot of time thinking about the decisions we made and the reasons behind those decisions, and how we thought about those decisions at the time. i tried to be honest in my reassessment, did we get it right or not? jim'sggest issues, announcement in july about our conclusion of the case in a public way that departed from president. and jim's decision to notify congress in october about the reopening of the case because of the emails on anthony weiner's laptop. think we got, i that wrong. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. joining us from lincoln, nebraska on our newsmakers program is governor pete ricketts. joining us in the questioning in washington is daniel strauss, he covers politics for politico. and reid wilson. in light of amazon pulling out of new york as part of the hq to headquarters, google is looking to set up a research facility in nebraska. what is the lessons from your state? gov. ricketts: when we talk to c